She was afraid that he was from the Misty Pavilion, and Niu Youdao even pointed it out. Yun Ji's heart was pounding, and her mind was in a mess. "You suspect that he is from the Misty Pavilion?"
Niu Youdao: "I'm just saying, anyone could be. Don't make any rash moves before you get to the bottom of it, or you'll be asking for trouble. How many times have you asked him to deliver the pills? "
Yun Ji: "Huan 'er said this is the first time. Huan' er went to buy the pills himself, and then entrusted them to him. This is the first time he delivered the pills."
Niu Youdao: "How many did he send?"
Yun Ji: "A thousand!"
A thousand wasn't a lot, but it wasn't a small amount either. Niu Youdao breathed a sigh of relief. "It's not a big problem. It's normal for a sect to buy a thousand at a time. After all, there are many demon cultivators on Cloud Crossing Mountain."
Yun Ji shook her head pessimistically. "It's not what you think. You have power over a region, and the Scarlet Hunting Eagle you ride is something we don't even dare to dream of in our entire lives. You come from a righteous sect, and once you leave the mountain, you walk the righteous path of the world. You don't understand the hardships of us cultivators with no status. How can Cloud Crossing Mountain compare to those sects that have a continuous source of income? Usually, we can only give out some money, and let the little demons save up enough to buy the pills themselves.
Niu Youdao immediately felt a headache coming on.
Who would have thought that Yun Ji would add oil to the fire and add, "Huan 'er made an agreement with him to send another thousand pills in three months."
Niu Youdao was completely speechless for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Are you crazy? You know that your business can't see the light of day, so how can you entrust this kind of thing to an outsider? Don't you know how to split it up?"
Yun Ji retorted, "Huan 'er didn't intend to let Baili Jie handle it all the time. He only entrusted it to him temporarily, and after two or three times, he would be replaced. How could he know that Baili Jie happened to have a problem?"
At the end of the day, it was all due to Baili Jie's coincidence. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been any problems.
Niu Youdao did not want to argue with her anymore. What had happened had already happened, and there was no point in arguing. He paced back and forth. "I'm afraid it's not a coincidence. He probably had his eyes on you from the start, and that's why he interacted with Yun Huan to gain her trust. He has been targeting the Crossing Clouds Mountain for many years, so it's not surprising that things fell into his hands. "
Yun Ji: "Why are they targeting us, is Crossing Cloud Mountain important? I've never mentioned the Spiritual Pearl to anyone before. "
Niu Youdao shook his head. "It has nothing to do with whether it's important or not. Some people play the game differently from your Crossing Clouds Mountain. It's not what you think it is."
He also felt a bit of a headache. He didn't expect to encounter such a thing. This was a great taboo of the nine. If the nine of them took action, it would be a calamity that no one in the world could stop!
If he didn't report it, he would be in trouble with him.
Telling him to report Yun Ji for betrayal? Not to mention that it was not morally justifiable, his own butt was not clean.
The key problem was Baili Jie's identity. He thought of Linghu Qiu, and now he hoped that Baili Jie was also a member of the Waning Moon Pavilion.
Looking at his unpredictable expression, Yun Ji's heart also jumped to her throat. She could imagine that if it were an ordinary person, they would probably betray her to protect themselves!
Fortunately, Niu Youdao had a bottom line, and he always abided by the word 'morality'.
In addition, he was not afraid of the itch when he was surrounded by lice, and having a Holy Rakshasa by his side was no different from taking responsibility for this matter. In the end, he didn't give up on this side and still intervened. He had no choice but to intervene as long as he didn't betray them. Otherwise, if something happened to Yun Ji, he would be dragged into it.
After pacing back and forth and thinking for a while, he made a decision. He stopped in front of Yun Ji and said in a deep voice, "You can't use these one thousand elixirs. You can't hide them secretly. Immediately arrange for them to be distributed to the little demons below."
Seeing that he was willing to intervene, it meant that they were in the same boat. Yun Ji nodded repeatedly. "Okay, I'll arrange it now. I'll inform Yun Huan to decline the one thousand elixirs that will be distributed three months later. "
"You can't decline it." Niu Youdao waved his hand repeatedly. "If there's any problem with him, he'll already be watching you. Continue to let him purchase the elixirs. Don't act rashly and alert the enemy."
Yun Ji disagreed. "Once is not enough. Do you want to distribute it to the little demons below? That's too abnormal. "
Niu Youdao said, "After this batch of elixirs is distributed, immediately organize people from Cloud Crossing Mountain to secretly go to Qingshan County. I'm afraid that the matter of borrowing troops will become real!"
Yun Ji was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood what he meant. He wanted the demon cultivators here to help, and this was the reward that Niu Youdao gave. She nodded and said, "I understand what you mean."
Niu Youdao said, "Remember, don't make a big fuss. Go secretly. The more secretive you are, the less likely it is to arouse suspicion. If someone from my side colludes with him, he will naturally know about it. Don't worry about the elixirs you need. I still have a few elixirs from a few sects. It'll be enough to cover the amount you need without arousing suspicion … "
The two of them whispered and plotted for a long time. After finalizing some details, Yun Ji sighed in relief and suddenly asked, "Why are you helping me like this? Aren't you afraid of getting yourself into trouble? "
"Of course I am, but I can't hide whenever I see trouble!"
"Alright, I'll be your friend!"
"Friend? Your son and I are sworn brothers. It's not appropriate for us to be friends as equals, right? "
"Don't mind him."
"…" Niu Youdao was speechless. In the end, he smiled bitterly and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. I can't stay for long. Hurry up and prepare to leave with me."
Yun Ji nodded and left quickly.
When they returned to Yun Xiao's cave abode and met up with Yun Huan, Yun Ji waved for Hou Qingtian and the others to leave.
Now that there were no outsiders, Yun Huan went forward and asked, "Mother, how did the discussion go?"
"Slap!" Yun Ji waved her hand and slapped his face. She did not go easy on him.
"…" Yun Huan staggered backward and covered his face. His eyes were wide open as he was bewildered by the slap.
After a while, he finally understood the reason for the slap from his mother. His back was drenched in cold sweat.
Yun Ji did not stay for long. After giving her son some secret instructions, she followed behind Niu Youdao. The four of them rode on the Red Hunter Eagle. The Red Hunter Eagle's burden was not light.
Yun Huan stood at the edge of the cliff and watched them leave.
Looking down at the familiar mountains and rivers, Yun Ji, whose face was covered by a white veil, sighed softly.
Things might not be as bad as they thought. After all, they did not even know Baili Jie's background. However, it was not a trivial matter. She did not dare to take the risk, and neither did Niu Youdao. They could not afford to take the risk, even if it was a one-off. They could only try their best to be safe.
Guan Fangyi looked at Yun Ji from time to time and clicked her tongue in her heart. She realized that there was really nothing that Daoye could not do. The matter of borrowing soldiers was easily settled by Daoye …
It was already late at night when they arrived at the Thatched Cottage Villa. Niu Youdao did not bring Yun Ji directly back to the villa. Instead, he arranged for her to stay in a guest house and transferred two female disciples from the three sects to take care of her.
When Niu Youdao returned to the villa, the first thing he did was to look for Yuan Gang.
Yuan Gang invited him into his room. Once the door was closed, he turned around and asked, "How was it?"
Niu Youdao exhaled. "It was Baili Jie!"
Yuan Gang's face tightened. "There's indeed something wrong."
"We have to figure out this Baili Jie's identity …" Niu Youdao told him about Yun Ji. "Although I don't know if he has any ill intentions towards Cloud Crossing Mountain, I have a bad feeling about it."
Yuan Gang frowned. "He has such a long reach. I'm afraid his background is not simple."
Niu Youdao asked, "What are you going to do?" For him to personally ask about it, it showed how much importance he placed on it.
Yuan Gang turned around and walked to the table. He took out a stack of white paper and flipped through it for a while. He took out a piece of paper, which was a map. He spread it out on the table.
Niu Youdao walked closer and found that Yuan Gang had already made a rough map of Star picking City.
"This is Shunfeng Hall." Yuan Gang pointed to a location on the map. "I think this should be a stronghold for Baili Jie to pass on information. If it's a secret stronghold, he must contact someone behind the scenes. We've set up observation points in the surroundings. It's impossible to track all the golden wings that have flown away from this place. We'll follow him for a short distance and find out the whereabouts of each golden wing. After that, I'll comb through the information again to see if I can find a pattern. Then, we'll follow one to the end. "
Niu Youdao asked, "What if we can't find any clues?"
Yuan Gang said in a low voice, "We can only try our best. We can't enter Shunfeng Hall to investigate, and we can't keep following Baili Jie. It's easy to be exposed."
Niu Youdao stared at the map and pondered for a while. His eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness. "I'll give you one month. If you really can't find a way, don't waste your energy. Just capture Baili Jie secretly and pry open his mouth!"
Yuan Gang asked, "What if he doesn't confess?"
Niu Youdao said, "Borrow the Bitter Divine Pill of Waning Moon Pavilion. We'll see what happens after we pry open his mouth. If we can't keep him, we'll do it … I'm afraid it's the last thing we want to see."
Yuan Gang knew what he meant. If it was really the Misty Pavilion, then it would be troublesome. Baili Jie didn't need to be afraid of anything. Even if he was captured and his mouth was pried open, he couldn't let him go. With such a powerful background, even the Bitter Divine Pill couldn't control him.
If Baili Jie couldn't make it back, all the targets that Baili Jie was involved in would be in trouble.
With similar precedents, the Misty Pavilion would rather kill the wrong people than let them go. They slaughtered them like ants. There was no reason at all!
But they had to find out the truth. If there was a problem with the person in charge of the intelligence center of the Thatched Cottage Villa, what if it wasn't the Misty Pavilion? How could they let the enemy run wild?
If it was before, they could just find fault with Gongsun Bu and get rid of him. But now, Yun Ji's heaven-piercing matter was involved. These two people were on the same side as Baili Jie. They couldn't let anything go wrong with Yun Ji's matter.
Yuan Gang hesitated for a while and said, "I'll try my best on my side. If it really doesn't work, we might as well make a fuss about Gongsun Bu."
Niu Youdao said, "If it's the Misty Pavilion, do you think Gongsun Bu dares to go against me or against the Misty Pavilion?"
Yuan Gang fell silent.
His fingers, which were on the hilt of the sword in front of him, moved for a while. Niu Youdao said Slowly, "If it really doesn't work, we can't touch Baili Jie easily. Once he does, we have to control him. City Lord of Star picking City, Sha Huan Li, and Pavilion Lord of Ice and Snow Pavilion, Xue Luo 'er, spend some time studying them and see which one is more suitable! As long as we succeed, it won't be a problem to touch Gongsun Bu or Baili Jie. "
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